Sets of physical actions, mental operations, concepts, or theories people use to organize and to acquire information about their worlds.
What is schemes? (p.4)
100
Piaget's stages of cognitive development
What is Sensorimotor, Preoperations, Concrete Operations, and Formal Operations? (p.6)
100
The gap between what children can do on their own and what they can do with the assistance of others.
What is zone of proximal development? (p.35)
100
The ability to think abstractly and reflectively occurs during this stage.
What is formal operations stage? (p.19)
200
Process which children mold new information to fit their existing schemes.
What is assimilation? (p.4)
200
Children's tendency to perceive, understand, and interpret the world in terms of the self.
What is egocentrism? (p.14)
200
Vygotsky placed a strong importance on this with regard to its influence on learning and development.
What is Social Interactions? (p.44)
200
Children can use symbols as a tool to think about their environment in this stage.
What is preoperational stage? (p.8)
300
A unique concept in Piaget's theory that refers to our innate tendency to keep our cognitive structures in balance.
What is equilibration? (p.6)
300
The understanding that an entity remains the same despite superficial changes in its form or physical appearance.
What is conservation? (p.18)
300
Refers to the process of constructing an internal representation of external physical actions or mental operations.
What is Internalization ? (p.33)
300
Goal directed behavior and Object permanence are achieved during this stage.
What is Sensorimotor stage? (p.7)
400
The knowledge that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen or acted on.
What is object permanence? (p.7)
400
Three basic mental operations to perform conservation tasks
What is negation, compensation, and identity? (p.19)
400
This serves as a self-regulatory function and is the means which guide children's thinking and behavior.
What is private speech? (p.37)
400
Children begin to use mental operations and logic to think about events and objects in their environment.
What is Concrete Operational Stage?
500
Involves the ability to order objects in a logical progression, such as from shortest to tallest.
What is seriation? (p.16)
500
Involves the ability to draw a logical inference based on the relationship between two statements or premises. (if/then statements)
What is Propositional Logic? (p.21)
500
Teachers and students take turns being the discussion leader. Through collaborative dialogue, children learn how to regulate their own reading comprehension.
What is reciprocal teaching? (p.39)
500
Children develop logical operations for seriation, classification, and conservation during this stage.